Improved composition for coating ships  bottoms



IO6. COMPOSITIONS, COATING OR PLASTIC.

I manner in which the same is to be performed is as follows: I

UNITED STATES FREDERIO NEWTON GISBOBNE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

PATENT OFFICE. I

IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR COATING SHIPS BOTTOMS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No; 45,912, dated November 22, 1864.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, FEEDEEIo NEWTON Gis- BORNE, of No. 3 Adelaide Place, London Bridge, in the city of London, engineer and electrician, have invented an Improved Gomposition for Coating Ships Bottoms; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my said invention and the I use in the composition the following ingredients or their chemical equivalents, and in the proportions following, or nearly so, but the relative quantities may be varied more or less: @1101;SIIVQLQLJIQITCIIITY, either as a nitrate of mercury or crude, but I prefer the latter, one pound; redhead, half a pound; litharge, half a pound; owdered flint glass or asphalt, a quarter of apound; Vermilion or Chinese red, a quarter of a pound, mixed togetheras a'pigment with boile djnseed-oil.

The process of admixtureTadopt is as follows, or nearly so: I pour a little oil on the the quicksilver so prepared. I then add the Vermilion or Chinese red with sufficient additional oil to form a composition about the orpared for use.

The composition is applied in the usual way, with two coatings; but the surface to which it is applied should be clean.

The quicksilver is the essential ingredient in the composition.

Having described the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that what I claim as my invention is- The composition substantially as hereinbeforedescribed.

In witness whereof I, the said FREDEEIo NEWTON GIsEoENE, have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of May, 1864.

E. N. GISBORNE.

\Vitnesse's:

CHAS. RoEEETs, Clerk to Mr. H. Wickens, 4 Tokenhouse Yard Bank, London.

quicksilver and rub it down for a few minutes, then gradually add the powdered glass or asphalt to aid the disintegration of the globules of the quicksilver. I mix the red lead GEORGE H. WARREN, N0. 17 Gracechurch Street, London, E. O.

J OHN HARRISON,

and litharge dry first, and then add them to Notary Public, London.

dinary consistency of paint or pigment pre- 

